Individual variation of the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in the herbivory-adapted marsupial wombats
V. Weisbecker, T. Guillerme, C. Speck, E. Sherratt, H. Mehari Abraha, A. Sharp, C. E. Terhune, S. Collins, S. Johnston, O. Panagiotopoulou
This study shows that individual variation in the masticatory system dominates 3D skull shape in wombats, challenging the idea that allometry primarily drives shape variation in marsupials.
bioRxiv · Jul 4, 2019Evolutionary Biology